Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-02
TITS OF INTEREST.

Poi IuffDon. Il N uSL fllhplS HOP0 '4N's - |
ueetIe lH cran UP again. 900 |
Their have ,een established at Harvard
TWO s'rarshin with present incomeo i |
300, theequisiSs for which are very novel.
They arto be termed the George Emerson
Lowell s,olarsaps. and excellence elther IN
the classi or athletic contests are to be the
qualincatns tolcandldates.
A vERYtrIou coincidence recently oc-
Cured at loth By, Conn. George Louns-
bury, aged ali mis- wife, aged ~, died on
the same d Rtt al almost the same instant.
InCy were thtaken III just a week Delore
their deathAr Lounsbury died OF para
lyuc slrol and his wife succumOeo 10
typhold pnhonia.
ONE of t. girls working In the mills at
Biddeford, e. gets more letters than any
other womaa the town. She Is the youngest
OF thirty -twhldren born to the same par
ents, and tnty-three brothers and sisters
who still llwrlte to her every week. HOW
she manager share of the correspondence
has not beeFinted.
On Feb. John Campbell, Of Buffalo,
and John Dunn, of Detroit, are to
have horseDe- aking contest. and the one
VINO first m& 100 shoes Will take the STAKES,
$3.50. Dunn made that number IN Two
hours and tNty- seven minutes, and camp
bell thinks Il he can beat that record. Inc
match will btorked off in Detroit.
WRITER The December Contemporary
claims that Mammedanism is doing more
than Chrlslialy to civIlize Central Africa,
and is receivl recruits from the natives
who were "coerted'' by the Christian mis-
sonarles. Thoor natives did not know the
difference beten Christianity and Moham-
mechanism. anoley do not know any better
now than they at first.
A FEW DAYS nee a family in Lowell found
beautifully fitted cake on the doorstep
with the adverement of local baker.
While preparing enjoy it some one sug-
gested that 1t mig be poisoned, and slice
was put in the sto, when it exploded, dong
some damage. A emists analysis showed
the cake to be poised, and the baker denies
ever making sucia cake. The affair is
mystery.
1T is said that the lid, quiet business men
of Texas are actuallthirsting for war of
any kind. The reast is that the State could
spare at least 90, 600 uless fellows-sharpers
adventures, ead-bes, and bummers-and
the easiest way to get d of them would be
to send them INTO goi, lively war, where
bullets fly thick and fat This is one reason,
it Is said, why Mexict war would be go
popular in Texas.
MRS. CLARA DoAHE. otIarwlchport, Cape
Cod, celebrated her 95th bthday on Jan. &c.
She received her guests VIII an old tobacco
pipe in her mouth, and sbked throughout
her reception. She SAID tome of her horri-
fed lady callers: 1--WE BET a-smokin' now
nigh on to eighty years, an if there's any
thing that's Kept me alive these years. it's
tobacco" Let the anti-tOacco crusaders
make a note of this.
THEY have a curious wayof settling mat
rimonial disputes in Nepal, ldia. On plain
ls a standard. When wifEants a divorce
from her husband she is give fair start and
has to run across the plain. Her better half
chases her with a kOokree If the woman
reaches the standard first Sd obtains disso =
luton of her marriage. If le doesn't get to
the post at all, it Is becausener husband has
caught her and cut her dow.
MRS. JACKSON SINGLETo, of Denver, was
the mother of nine childreDn Friday morn
ing. That evening she VS. the mother OF
twelve. II was sort of lmbfoundered al
fust," said Mr.. Singleton. VINO is q colored
man and very poor. 81 thught they never
would stop cOmin'. 1t alpst took my bret
away" Mrs. singleton 1888 years old and
she and Hiram Madison, Alva Adams, and
Carrie Collins are doing rght well.
THERE are five females nrolled in the law
department of Michigan DIVERSITY this year.
One is young girl fromthe Sandwich ISL
ands. the granddaughter I an honored mis-
sionary of the Congregational Church. Hell
father, who Is prominent lawyer on the
islands, has fostered her atural bent toward
legal study in practical way. intrOduciDe
her into the details of he work at an early
age. She intends to praCice at her home.
AN old-time curious aston recently oc-
Cured at the court of berlin. Every year
the salters of Halle are entitled TO present tc
the King and heir-sppannt their vows for
the new year. On Jan. at p. %. the salt
ers called on his majesty lad "Unser Fritz
with the traditional pTeseHs. which consisted
Of six sau-ages, sailed tart and twenty five
hard boiled eggs cooked in sailed water
These traditional comestbes were served III
at the table of the emperor.
OUT at Reglna, Gays tfB Leader of Jan. 4
'Tn the Methodist churc the old year wa
prayed out; at the Catholic church it wa
rung out; at the town hal 1t was played on
by the band; at the barrcks it was danced
out; some warlike persos on South Railwa,
street shot it out withrevOlvers; the SIN al
boys around town yelledit out; and seeinj
the mercury at As degL below zero by on
self-registering Thermometer the next morn
ing, we should judge it vas also frozen out.
THERE is an aesthetic Itreet car conductor @
Philadelphia who for tie past two years ha
spent much Of his spale time IN making hi
car beautiful. Two hidsome silk flags ador
the centre of the car, ard the bell rope
jauntlly lined with knds of brightly colore
worsted. He takes graf pride in this work
The attendants at TIT stable say he scrub
and airs his car with 81 the care of a house
keeper. A sponge is always to be seen on tn
car. No man on the Inc keeps his tempe
better in a time of blockade.
THE Melbourne Argls gives an account q
the successful conveyance and distribution o
over 1900 young fry If salmon trout an
brown trout reared from fish acclim atized d
Sir Samuel Wilson's fish Matching establish
ment at ErcildOune, Victoria. These fir
were placed in twenty-five different stream
aud rivers, with scarcely any loss, althOug
carried great distances. From the sam
paper il appears that the Californian salmo
introduced into Australian waters some veal
ago BY sir samuel Wilson have been caugt
in various places upto eyen-pound weight.
THE old merchants Of New York half Ger
fury ago had a different way of doing bus
ness from that in vogue to-day. A merchai
who did not promptly pay his debts could |
locked up In the old jail which stood on the eli
of the present Hall OF Records, east of I'll
City Hall. 1t was square brick buildin
and had on the top cupola and bell. Up
the cupola poor debtors used to sit and gu
themselves for hours Some OF the prisoner
were allowed to go on what was called 'ja
limits" and signs with Jail limits" painte
on the board were nailed up in conspIcuol
spots in different parts OF the city.
THE Frank journal. OF Paris, publishes IL
following recipe for Group, which is said I
have been in the possession of the family OF
we'll known French civil engineer for sewers
generations. 1t 10 sad that "a complete cuI
is effected by ii in from Two to ten minutes
Roast an onion In ashes, then spread it o
muslin so as to form poutlce. Cover Ii
onion with another piece of muslin. the
pour a u aspoonfu of ammonia on the pou
tice. Apply hot on the throat and cure